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                   Mali Monitors More Than 300 Ebola Contacts

   by VOA News

   Health authorities in Mali say they are monitoring 338 people linked
   with the country's six fatal Ebola cases, and most of them under daily
   surveillance.

   In a news release, the World Health Organization said Thursday that all
   118 people who had direct contact with the Ebola victims have completed
   their 21-day incubation period without developing symptoms.

   The release said tracking a victim's contacts, in order to break chains
   of transmission, has proven the most effective way of containing the
   disease, as shown in neighboring Senegal and Nigeria.

   The WHO has updated its Ebola figures, saying Wednesday that there have
   now been a total of 5,420 Ebola deaths among 15,145 cases in this most
   recent outbreak. It cautions, though, that the number of cases and
   deaths continue to be underreported.

   There have been a handful of cases elsewhere in the world, including
   the United States, but the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia
   and Sierra Leone remain the epicenter of the epidemic.





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